Smokemakase! Chefs' Perfect Stoner Foods

"After I smoke, I get this craving for Disco fries with a twist. Disco fries are a Jersey thing—basically steak fries with cheddar cheese and brown gravy. When I'm home I do them with sweet potato tater tots (who doesn't love tater tots?), cheddar cubes, pickled jalepeños, and this amazing roasted chicken sauce. Bake this in the oven 'til everything is gooey. These always fill the void. If I'm still hungry, store-bought ice cream finishes me off: Haagen Dazs Caramel Cone. It's ridiculousness."

Paul Viranat

Perennial Virant, Chicago

"Our biscuits and gravy are insanely delicious, and they're the perfect breakfast to kickstart the day on 4/20. It's a mixture of chicken sausage and house-made gravy sitting on top of a fluffy biscuit and topped with two sunny-side-up eggs. Even without smoking, I think you'd be hard-pressed not to finish the whole plate."

Dale Talde

_Pork Slope, Brooklyn

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"I recommend nachos: Even when they are bad, they're still pretty good. You can personalize them to whatever mood you may be in. I like mine with tortilla chips covered in chili, jalapenos, cheddar, tomatoes, and onions, but sometimes I switch it up and use tater tots instead of chips. I call them Irish Nachos."

David Burke

David Burke Kitchen, New York

"I'd recommend my peanut butter maple bacon dates with fried grape. The saltiness from the bacon combines really well with the creaminess of the peanut butter, which has a bit of heat on it from some diced jalapeno. The fried grape really pops in your mouth. It's like an elevated PB&J: the perfect stoner food."

Ernesto Uchimura

Plan Check Kitchen + Bar, Los Angeles

"When I think of great stoner foods, I think of big flavors. Our pastrami gravy fries are the perfect indulgence. We cook them in beef tallow instead of vegetable oil to impart a more complex flavor. They're topped with pastrami bits, pastrami gravy, melted Swiss cheese, and chopped pickles to create a mass of different textures. Extremely satisfying."

Frank Falcinelli

Frankies Spuntino, Brooklyn

"When we prepare food for our friends who like to smoke and eat, we like to make it both pleasurable and healthy for the next day. When you consume THC, it's basically a sugar blocker to the brain, so with that in mind, we want to replace that sugar—that's where the craving comes in. Rather than replace it with empty carbs, we like to replace it with healthy grains like quinoa laced with vegetables and maybe a little protein, like a braised pork belly—just a touch. Keep it clean and healthy so it's a great lifestyle, and not just a single-faceted blowout of carbs and sugar."

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